Abstract
In neither of his two major forays into the laws of war and peace – De Iure Praedae or De Iure Belli ac Pacis – did Hugo Grotius discuss the legal institutions of reprisal – whether special or general – or privateering in their own right. His profoundly novel reading of the just war doctrine in the context of his theory of natural rights, however, gave powerful legitimisation to the practices of special reprisals, as well of privateering in times of war and of peace.
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